rxvt (acronym for our extended virtual terminal) is a terminal emulator for the X Window System
Questions tagged [rxvt]
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How do I change rxvt colors to white on black?
By default, on Ubuntu, rxvt terminal is black on white. How do I change it to white on black?
I'm running Lubuntu 16.04 LTS
Nickolai Leschov
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How can I install urxvt terminal on Ubuntu 18.04?
How I can install the urxvt terminal?
godzov
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How would I configure my font to be bolder?
I'm in a bit of dilemma here. I'm using Urxvt as my terminal Fantasque Sans Mono as my font.
Here's the result:
The regular version is just too skinny for me. So I configured Urxvt to use the bold style:
Now it's too bold for my taste. Is there…
menixator
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rxvt-unicode doesn't display unicode characters
I do not understand why rxvt-unicode doesn't display some Unicode characters correctly such as ☁ or ☂ while ⚡ is displayed correctly. These symbols are replaced by a little box as you can see in the screenshot:
Here's my locale:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 …
random.cpp
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Full font hinting for urxvt in Ubuntu 19.04?
I'm running 19.04 and I followed Full font hinting not working in Ubuntu 18.04 to enable full font hinting. It works for graphical applications such as Chromium, but not my terminal (urxvt). How do I enable full font hinting for urxvt?
Edit:
Here is…
jth
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Unicode Characters aren't working on urxvt terminal
I want to change my terminal from gnome to urxvt. But there are some issues in urxvt that I cannot resolve. I use vifm for my terminal file manager. Vifm looks different when I am in urxvt.
This is what it looks like when I am in…
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Where to place rxvt extensions?
I've trying to configure my rxvt-unicode so I need to know where to place extensions for it.
I've tried this folder: ~/.urxvt/ext/ and properly configured my ~/.Xdefaults but no luck. Looks I should use some another folder but what the folder?
JavaRunner
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Got syntax error when setupping powerline theme
I am taking example from this bash.rc file to apply this to my shell:
#======================================================================#
# .bashrc
# Fichero de opciones del shell bash
#
# Electro7
# 23 sep 2019
# Versión común - WSL, debian y…
Leon
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How to launch terminal + cal command?
I have an issue in which I was unable to find a solution till now. While I use several scripts to launch specific commands through URXvt:
#!/bin/sh
urxvt -geometry 40x20+990+30 -w 0 -b 0 -e nmtui
when I try to launch the same window with cal…
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How can I auto-close an urxvt terminal after executing an expect script?
I've written a script to handle quick copying of passwords to the clipboard:
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn -noecho zsh
expect "$ "
send "pass show -c "
interact
exit
This script is launched like this:
urxvt -e /home/user/pass_script.sh
The script…
Exeleration-G
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Enable dead key usage in urxvt
I'm able to normaly use dead keys over the whole system.
FYI I live in Brazil and we use accented letters, as in é á ó ã õ.
We need dead key support for this as we type first the accent key " ´ " and then the proper key " a " to get and á
It…
Leo Zerino
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urxvt isn't launching with the tmux as a startup command
Previously this line was working and was launching the urxvt with a tmux in it:
urxvt -e tmux
… but after my latest install of 18.04.1 Ubuntu it's not launching any more. urxvt version is v9.22.
I've got it successfully started with those command…
KhaimovMR
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